Thomas Dolby Quotes

• The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

  Thomas Dolby

  Dream, Men, Mad

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• Etch out the future on your own design.

  Thomas Dolby

  Inspirational, Design

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• When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.

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  Ocean, Character, Ice

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• She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

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  Education, Geometry, Blinded

  Song: She Blinded Me With Science, Album: The Golden Age of Wireless

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• I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.

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  Expression, Video, Records

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• I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

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  People, Desperation, Desperate

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• From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.

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  Technology, Views, Quality

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• The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

  Thomas Dolby

  Teenage, Boys, Games

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• If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.

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  Art, Guitar, Years

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• Smother me in your hot sauce woman until smoke comes from your thighs.

  Thomas Dolby

  Sex, Hot, Sauce

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• It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me.

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  Romantic, Eye

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• She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read.

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  Art, Stars, Media

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• It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.

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  Swings, Abuse, Ability

  Song: The Ability To Swing, Album: Aliens Ate My Buick

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• Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy! Etch out a future of your own design Well tailored to your needs Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive ... ...the future is roses! Roses!

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  Dream, Future, Heart

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• It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

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  Years, Names, Long

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• So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

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  Technology, Long, Killers

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• So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

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  Technology, Valleys, Use

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• It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.

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  Technology, Years, Two

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• At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.

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  Reality, Sound, Audio

  17 Copy quote

• I've been out on the periphery.

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  Periphery

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• I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.

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  Running, Dream, Reality

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• While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

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  Intellectual, Quality, Giants

  Song: Airhead, Album: Aliens Ate My Buick

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• So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

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  Song, Guitar, Records

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• Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.

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  Mean, Firsts, Equipment

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